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...Moscow, West German State Secretary Egon Bahr had three sessions with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, bringing to 30 hours the time the two men have spent together since Jan. 30. The talks are totally shrouded in secrecy. Nevertheless, some diplomats in Moscow suspect that the two sides may be nearing agreement on a joint draft of a renunciation-of-force treaty. Such an agreement would undoubtedly open the way for the West German financial aid and technical know-how that the Soviets so badly need to help their troubled economy...
...slightest evidence of a power struggle-or even of a letter. On the contrary, the Soviet capital was stolidly quiet. There were no signs of unusual military activity except for huge Soviet army maneuvers in Byelorussia -and Brezhnev was on the scene reviewing the exercise with Defense Minister Andrei Grechko...
...President's reply to a tongue-in-cheek suggestion from a U.S. Senator that he appoint the late John L. Lewis Ambassador to Russia. The mine workers' boss, reasoned Truman's correspondent, had a "more formidable" look than Stalin and could "roar louder" than Andrei Gromyko. A convincing argument. Replied the man from Missouri: "I wouldn't appoint John L. Lewis dogcatcher...
...most of the attention has focused on Brandt's Ostpolitik. In addition to the East Berlin meetings, talks resumed in Moscow last week between Egon Bahr, Brandt's chief foreign adviser, and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In Warsaw, Polish officials prepared to start a new round of discussions with a West German delegation this week. Meanwhile, Brandt was in Britain seeking support for his policy. After receiving an honorary doctorate of civil law at Oxford, Brandt said in Latin that his aim was "an equitable and lasting peace system in Europe under which individuals and nations...
...Soviet writer, a human being made of flesh and blood, not a puppet to be pulled on a string." So wrote Andrei Voznesensky in a 1967 letter to Pravda protesting censorship. Pravda pigeonholed the letter, but it appeared in the West, and since then Russia's most brilliant young poet has been scarcely published in his own country, and he has repeatedly been refused permission to travel to the West. The author's latest play, Look Out for Your Faces, was in rehearsal for nine months while awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Culture...